Cattle on the Road: What a Farmer Does When Cows Get Out
Cattle on the road: what a mountain farmer does when cows get out, why you never chase them, and what to do if you meet them driving.
Buying and Storing Beef
Chest Freezer in a Cold Garage: Will It Keep Your Beef Frozen?
Can a chest freezer go in a cold garage? What a farm that runs freezers all winter has learned, before you fill one with a beef share.
Our Story
Goat Climbing Fence: How Our Dwarf Goats Beat Woven Wire
A goat climbing a fence: how two Nigerian dwarf goats beat a woven wire fence on a cattle farm, and what it teaches about keeping goats in.
Our Story
Great Pyrenees Escape: Our Farm Dog Wayo and the Fence
A Great Pyrenees escape story from a cattle farm: Wayo the farm dog, the fence and a months-long chess match with Gray's dad.
Our Story
Pet Goats on a Cattle Farm: Meet Mr. Bo Jangles
Pet goats on a fifth-generation cattle farm: two Nigerian dwarf goats, a lap goat named Speck and Mr. Bo Jangles, mayor of the barnyard.
Our Story
A North Carolina Thanksgiving, From the Mountains to the Coast
A North Carolina Thanksgiving on a fifth-generation cattle farm: beef from the mountains, seafood from down east, family at both tables.
Our Story
Farm Christmas: December on a Working Cattle Farm
What a farm Christmas is really like on a fifth-generation cattle farm: feed and hay every morning, the shipping rush, then the family.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
Old Fashioned Christmas Dinner Menu: Grandmother's Long Table
An old fashioned Christmas dinner menu from a mountain farm grandmother who fed sixteen at one table, and what her cooking still teaches.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
Steak Gift Box Delivery for Christmas: When to Order, When to Switch
Steak gift box delivery for Christmas, from the farm that packs them: order early, ship close to home, and when to give a gift card.
Our Story
Winter on the Farm: Do Cows Get Cold?
Winter on the farm in the North Carolina mountains: do cows get cold, what a newborn calf needs, and why mud is worse than snow.
Hosting and Feeding a Crowd
A Thanksgiving Menu for Beginners: Fewer Dishes, Better Food
A Thanksgiving menu for beginners: one roast, three sides, one pie and a four-day plan, from a farmer who cooks for his family.
Our Story
An Appalachian Thanksgiving on a Family Farm
An Appalachian Thanksgiving on a fifth-generation cattle farm in the North Carolina mountains: chores first, then a long table.
Cooking Techniques
Dry-Aged Chuck Roast on the Smoker for Thanksgiving
How to smoke a dry-aged chuck roast for Thanksgiving: smoker temperature, timing, the stall, and how to tell when it is done.
Holidays and Gatherings
Grandmother's Onions: Creamed Onions for Thanksgiving
Creamed onions for Thanksgiving, the Shipley family way: pearl onions in cheese sauce, covered in peanuts. Make it a day ahead.
Cooking Techniques
Lard Pie Crust Recipe: A Flaky Crust From Scratch
A lard pie crust recipe for a flaky, tender crust: how much lard, how cold to keep it, lard or butter, and rendering your own lard.
News
A Year of Building With Highland Willow
A year of rebuilding how Shipley Farms sells, with the online store, the farm register and shipping finally on one system.
News
Feed a Neighbor: Sending Beef to the Table on King Street
There is a lunch counter on West King Street in Boone where you can eat whether or not you can pay for it. This holiday season you can send them beef, and it goes further than it would at retail.
Gifts and Giving
How the F.A.R.M. Cafe Giving Option Works
What happens when you send a Shipley Farms gift card to F.A.R.M. Cafe in Boone: how it reaches the kitchen, how many people it helps feed, what your receipt shows, and what we can and cannot tell you
Tallow and Nutrition
A Guide to Beef Offal
Organ meats get lumped together and they should not be. They cook differently, taste nothing like each other, and some are much easier to start with than others.
Cooking Techniques
A Guide to Our Pork Sausages
We make the same pork into several different things. The useful question is not which is best, it is which format you need.
